[citation][nom]ssddx[/nom]belardo,i've played on every single UT3 map. some are a bit cramped but none are unplayable. what made the game not as fun as previous versions was the change from brightly colored foes (which were easy to see) in a reflex-clicking shoot-em-up into a semi-realistic setting where enemy foes blend in with the surroundings more. I have to give epic props for the visuals but the gameplay is what truley counts.[/citation]
Hmmm... let me put it this way about "playable" - in that its ENJOYABLE. In that you don't have a server with 24+ people on a damn ONS/WAR map for 2 hours trying to score. With people screaming "LET THE OThER SIDE WIN! Don'T KILL the Flag carrier!" and people leave the server because they are BORED to death.
Game play (in general) was quite good, the character movement and weapons are quite good. But the lack of VEC Zoom is 100% pure bullcrap on Epics part... and the CODE is in the game. A 16k MOD file re-activates the ability. Its a pure bitch trying to SHOOT someone below you when HALF your screen is sucked up by Cicada or Raptor. Or how about the COOL feature of pulling team-mates with VECs. Wow, it would be GREAT if you could ZOOM out to see if you have TEAM-MATES hanging on. DUH.
Most of the MAPs sucked. They even threw in some BEAUTIFUL remake maps from UT99 & UT2004 classics... but they were not the same. So again... out of 33 total maps of the standard UT3... about 3 or so maps per type (okay, 9 total) are enjoyable. And what happens? The players play the SAME bloody map over and over and over again until everyone is BORED and goes home.
Go ahead... load up UT3, how many active servers are there with REAL humans? Besides the totally Fubars the humans/bots so you may THINK there are humans on the server. So guess what... I play UT2004 more than UT3 because there are PEOPLE playing and the maps are fun... even if the technology is 8 years old!
I stuck with it as much as I can. Added all the patches that eventually made the menu GUI not so much pure console garbage. I've downloaded and converted over 100 UT3 maps (including the titan pack) to my map lists... pretty much ALL of them are easily better than the garbage that came in the box. Some of them are BEAUTIFUL and fun. Like the resort on an island that looks rather Appleseed-ish.
But... there are very very rare active custom-map servers. What is up... the usual standard UT3 crap-map pack. Boring. UT3 is completely and easily fixable. First, fix the problems I outlined. VEC-ZOOM should be on by default, go ahead and put an option to turn it off, nobody would do that.
Get 125~150 of the best custom maps out there and included it on the DVD(s) with the game so people can have fun and get their friends to join, etc. This is how Epic fixed the FAILURE of UT2003. It had bugs, about 35~40 maps and handled rather crappy. Only a few people liked it. When UT2004 came out... WOW, I retired UT99 overnight.
The last time I played UT3 was Dec 2009... it was pretty dead then, and I'm betting its even worse now. 🙁
....i for one, can't stand consoles
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